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Summary

This entry was posted on Jay's account on March 05, 2010.
The description for the video is "".
It is tagged "marble" & "hornets".
The original video size is 480 x 320.
In total, this clip is 0:27 long.

This video consists of black and white clips of the masked man as well as a number of ambiguous images, most of which are heavily distorted. The audio consists of a buzzing tone, with a distorted recording of totheark's voice. The style of the video is consistent with totheark's most recent upload, Warning

[00:00] A large operator symbol written with black on a white background, speculated to be some sort of whiteboard. High-contrast distortion renders the far right portion of the frame black. The image "boils", being three different images of the Operator symbol interchanged at three-frame intervals. There is a single, slightly garbled tone overlaying the clip.
[00:02] A a fuzzy, rectangular black shape with a slanted top and an irregular left side appears on a white background. It is not a still image, but appears to have been filmed with a stationary camera and pulses slightly. The audio tone continues, a second, lower, buzzing tone joins the first.
[00:03] The buzzing tone increases in volume and then quickly decreases again. This continues throughout the video with different volumes and tones.
[00:04-00:06] A very distorted voice begins to speak: "We will wait for you no more."
[00:06] An image of two grey-white ovals on a black ground, with some grey artifacts around the edges. It is not a still image either. The image blurs and pulses slightly.
[00:07-00:10] The distorted voice continues: "Control is being taken away from you."
[00:08] A high-contrast distorted image of what appears to be the mask, seen from a high angle, medium grey on a black background. The mask is moving, as if the person wearing it is leaning further forward.
[00:09] The mask moves upward again, as if the person is sitting up. This continues till the mask disappears out the top of the frame. It passes through some intermittent shadow before it disappears.
[00:10] The masked figure, seen from the shoulders up against a grey wall. There does not appear to be much contrast distortion on this section. The masked figure is moving his head, and the filming is jerky and rapid, similar to stop motion or very rapid cuts. The masked man goes from looking to the left of the frame, to looking up, to looking to the right of the frame.
[00:11-00:13] The distorted voice continues: "From the start this has been a game (to/for) us."
[00:11] A blurry shape evocative of a face or the mask against a grainy, mostly black background. The face appears to be moving slightly, very slowly, from head slightly tilted down to looking straight forward. There are blurring and contrast distortion on this shot.
[00:13] A blurry shot of the masked man from the chest up. The same distortion and contrast adjustments are present on this shot. The masked man's image moves left slightly, as if the camera is steady but not stationary.
[00:15-00:16] The distorted voice continues: "Not anymore."
[00:15] A very blurry shot of a figure, obscured by vertical slats of black and grey that sway back and forth. The figure is very blurry, but the shape of the eye sockets suggest that this is also the masked man.
[00:18] A close-up, blurry shot of the mask on the left of the frame. He tilts his head abruptly and rapidly moves offscreen to the left.
[00:18-00:19] The voice continues: "I'm coming for you."
[00:19] Another shot of the masked man through the vertical slats. This shot is less blurry than the previous, and there is less of the grainy distortion. The masked man moves towards the camera until he is passing through the blinds.
[00:19-00:21] The voice continues: "And you will lead me"
[00:20] A high-angle close-up shot of the mask, with a great deal of grainy high-contrast distortion.
[00:21] A clip of the masked man rapidly tossing his head. This clip is very high-contrast, but much more in focus.
[00:21] A clip of a male figure wearing a light-colored, collared jacket putting the mask over his face.
[00:22] A clip of the figure behind the moving blinds. The blinds turn, obscuring the figure with grey surfaces, and then continue to turn, rendering the whole frame black.
[00:22-00:23] The voice continues: "to the ark."
[00:23] An indistinct, blurry image of an assortment of random of grey and black blotches. These appear to blur out of focus, and then the black areas grow until they overtake the entire screen.
[00:26] The video ends.

There is no hidden final frame.

It is followed by three related tweets:

Main Theories and Observations

The Imagery in the Video

The first image, the one of the black rectangle, may be a door or doorway.

The image of the two grey ovals on the black screen could be the view from the inside of the masked man's mask.

There are a number of shots in which the masked man's movements are slow and apparently dazed or stunned, as well as a number of them where his movements are very frenetic, probably sped up.

The jacket that the figure putting on the mask is wearing is the same jacket as Tim is seen wearing in Entry #20, and the hair, particularly the sideburns, are similar as well. This is one of the videos which hints strongly to the viewers that Tim is the masked man, in addition to other videos where he is seen wearing what appears to be the same jacket, including Entry #19 and Entry #23.

The various images of masked faces in the video all appear to be slightly different. This is most often attributed to distortion, athough some theorize that the changes are too drastic from mask to mask and suggest that this video shows that there are multiplemasks.

The Audio

The tones that play behind the distorted voice in the video sound as if they might have come from a piece of heavily edited or distorted music.

The audio track does appear to be music, reversed, although no one has identified the piece that it is from yet.

The diction of the speech is a little bit suspect. The voice is generally agreed to have said:
"We will wait for you no more. Control is being taken away from you. From a start, this has been a game for us. Not anymore. I'm coming for you, and you will lead me to the ark."
It is, however, suggested that instead of "and you will lead me to the ark", as in Jay will lead totheark to the ark, that it is saying "and you will lead me, Totheark", that totheark and the masked man are different people and that the masked man is sending a message to totheark using Jay's account. There is also a chance that it is intended to be, "and you will lead me. -totheark", as in totheark signs off with his name.

However, GnomonRose suggests that the intonation of the speech doesn't lend itself to either a signoff or a reference to totheark as a name, thusly implying that it is intended to be "you will lead me to the ark".

It has been suggested that at the end of the video, layered into the sound after the last phrase, are the words "you are not ready".

The Creator

This video appears to have been posted by totheark, and is in totheark's usual style. Jay has stated on his Twitter account on March 6th, 2010 that he did not post Entry ######. However, it IS posted on the Marble Hornets youtube page, and therefore can be seen as a little bit suspect.

It could be that totheark simply hacked into Jay's youtube account and uploaded it that way.

It could also be that totheark broke into Jay's house and uploaded it from his computer.

Jay has been losing time, and it has been suggested in previous videos, such as Return, that the masked man takes control of him or takes him places. Assuming Masky is totheark, it could be that he took over Jay and somehow made him upload the video himself.

It is also theorized by some that the figure in the video IS Jay, and that the time he has been losing is time that he spends as a "Masky" himself.

Totheark and Masky

In this entry, it is said that "we will wait for you no more", and "from the start this has been a game for us". The use of these plurals can be used to infer a few different things:

That totheark and the masked man are not the same person, and so the video is using the plural in the sense of speaking for both of them, and when it's speaking in singular, it's speaking only for the masked man as the active party.

Kjax8 suggests further that totheark is a group or organization that the masked man was once part of and wants to be a part of again, and that this entry was his way of sending a message to totheark to that effect.

That totheark and the masked man are the same person, and that that person is working with or for the Operator in some form.

That the plural is simply used in a royal "we" sense or, as suggested by RadheadSyndicate, in a biblical sense, as in "we are legion".

The Ark

Miscellaneous

This video follows the tone of the totheark video Warning, in that it is more aggressive in the way it communicates with Jay and/or the viewer.

This video could be trying to goad Jay into doing something other than sitting alone at home (which he had been in previous videos). Dray suggests that Jay is being used as some sort of bait for the Operator.

morscata12 suggests that the phrase "control is being taken away from you" refers to the Operator taking control away from Jay, not totheark doing so, and that this entry is a warning to Jay to that effect, and that totheark is warning Jay about this because he wants Jay to triumph over the Operator so that he can lead totheark to the ark.

eckohour suggests that perhaps the video was directed at the viewers of the series, and is saying that we have spent too long trying to figure out the puzzles and failed, and thus have no more say in the storyline. However, Marble Hornets was never very interactive, and even the puzzles that were solved didnt' seem to help Jay in any way, so this, while cool, is unlikely.

Jay states in Entry #25, "I've been out of my home ever since totheark put the last video on this channel." This can be seen as somewhat meta support of the idea that totheark was the one to make and upload the video, or it can be seen as an indication of Jay as an unreliable narrator.

Further Speculation

What I find the most interesting about this entry — aside from the general mindfuckery, of course — is the last sentence based simply upon how many ways it can be interpreted:

"And you will lead me to the ark" (i.e. Jay, or for whomever the video is intended, will literally lead Masky to the ark, whatever that may be)
"And you will lead me, totheark" (i.e. Jay, or for whomever the video is intended, is totheark and will lead Masky either literally — to a destination — or metaphorically)
"And you will lead me. totheark" (i.e. Jay, or for whomever the video is intended, will lead totheark — likely to be Masky if this is the valid interpretation — again either literally or metaphorically)

That said, this also occurs to a minor degree in other phrases and even totheark itself — is it totheark as in the videos are addressing the ark, or totheark as in "To the ark! Let's go!"?

Giant Squid said:

J did not upload the video, despite the fact that it was on his account. There is a very good chance this is due to totheark hacking his account.

Dav Flamerock said:

It is also possible that J is simply acting out of character due to the effects of the Slender Man and does not remember posting the video. This would work with the theory that J is turning into a totheark-like character just like Alex did.

Ventosus said:

We know that it has been documented that J has filmed and has been filmed without his knowledge. Not to mention the missing chunks of his memory that we haven't even learned what happened yet. I have heard it theorized that J may be a "Masky" of some sort as well and this idea adds to that. Perhaps J did upload the video during one of his "blackout" periods, the speaker is slow and deliberate in the audio in this one but consider the pause in the midst of, "you will lead me to the ark." This audio takes on a whole new meaning when it is read, "You will lead me, Totheark." It could be a message directed at totheark rather than from him. A message from J stating Totheark will lead him from this point on.

Could it be that J has a split personality, and said other personality knows that, so he is referring as 'us'? The end of what Ventosus said gave me that thought. ~GTLargo21